The sky
is not a painting, it's a movie. Stars pulse, flare, some
explode as supernova, asteroids whiz by the earth, new comets appear in
the sky, Aurora sets the northern skies ablaze and meteors streak through
Earth's atmosphere.

See below Hubble
site Tonight's Sky, highlights of this months night sky movie with narration below.
Click on photo below.

The Full Moon for August

The
Full Sturgeon Moon – The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
Courtesy Farmers Almanac.

Lunar Phase

Full Moon

August 7

2:11 pm EDT

Last Quarter Moon

August 14

9:15 pm EDT

New Moon

August 21

2:30 pm EDT

First Quarter Moon

August 29

4:13 am EDT

The Planets
Visibility for August

UPDATE IN
PROGRESS

Mercury

Evening Sky
WNW

Mercury
midmonth is in the
evening sky rising at 3:2 am in the constellation Cancer low in the west
at -0.5 magnitude with a diameter 00°00'06"
and Phase (%): 67.38.

Venus

Morning
Sky E

Venus midmonth is at -4.1 magnitude with a diameter 00°00'16"
and Phase (%):
68.43.
Venus is in Taurus. Venus rises at 3:02 am. Venus is highest in the sky
just before dawn.

Mars

Mars is
lost in the glare of the Sun

Mars is
lost in the glare of the Sun until early August when Mars become
visible low in the morning eastern sky just before dawn. To see which part of
Mars surface is visible at any time, check out theMars
Profilerat Sky & Telescope Magazine's web page.

JUPITER

Evening -
Morning Sky W

Jupitermidmonth is
at -2.0 magnitude with a diameter 00°00'36" located in the constellation
Virgo. Jupiter sets at 12:16 am.

Saturn midmonth
is
at +0.2 magnitude with a diameter 00°00'18" located in the constellation
Ophiuchus. Saturn sets at 3:47 am. Saturn's
ring tilt is +26.7. Saturn is best viewed when highest in the sky around
11:00 pm.

Pluto reaches opposition
July 10. Pluto is closest to Earth this year as it will be. Pluto is at magnitude
+14.2
and diameter
00°00'.00"
rising at 8:22 pm in the constellation Sagittarius in the east. Pluto will
be highest in the sky at 1:12 am.

COMETS BRIGHTER
THAN 8TH MAGNITUDE

Comets

C/2015 V2 (Johnson) Magnitude
7.9Evening Object. Located in Virgo.
See members section for location.

If the dial on the left
(Magnetic Field) has dipped below zero, the speed is high and the dial
dynamic pressure is in the yellow/red, be alert for Aurora. Anytime
the gauges are in the Red
and the dial on the left, the Magnetic
Field BZ has dipped to the yellow-red... Aurora
will be occurring in our area.See
link to solar wind gauge here:REAL TIME
SOLAR WIND

See explanation
of solar wind dials below by clicking on photo of dials